python click

What’s click ?
http://click.pocoo.org/3/

Click is a Python package for creating beautiful command line
interfaces in a composable way with as little code as necessary. It’s
the “Command Line Interface Creation Kit”

Click in three points:

• arbitrary nesting of commands
• automatic help page generation supports
• lazy loading of subcommands at runtime

What does it look like? Here is an example of a simple Click program:

import click

@click.command()
@click.option('--count', default=1, help='Number of greetings.')
@click.option('--name', prompt='Your name',
              help='The person to greet.')
def hello(count, name):
    """Simple program that greets NAME for a total of COUNT times."""
    for x in range(count):
        click.echo('Hello %s!' % name)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    hello()

And what it looks like when run:

$ python hello.py --count=3
Your name: John
Hello John!
Hello John!
Hello John!

It automatically generates nicely formatted help pages:

$ python hello.py --help
Usage: hello.py [OPTIONS]

  Simple program that greets NAME for a total of COUNT times.

Options:
  --count INTEGER  Number of greetings.
  --name TEXT      The person to greet.
  --help           Show this message and exit.

You can get the library directly from PyPI:

pip install click

the more: Build Modular Command-Line Tools with Click

Here are some notes:

• Multiple Values from Environment Values
  http://click.pocoo.org/5/options/#multiple-values-from-environment-values
• Values from Environment Variables
  http://click.pocoo.org/5/options/#values-from-environment-variables